Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

247. What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat

248. Life has no path so short as to renown !

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

King Arthur, Bk XII, CLXI

249. Curses, like young chickens, come home to roost.

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

The Curse of Kehama

250. Do the duty that lies nearest thee; which thou knowest to be a duty. The second duty will already become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Sartor Resartus, Bk II, Ch. IX

251. Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the good man and his wife.

Old Proverb

252. Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes:
Antiquity and birth are needless here; ’Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

The True-born Englishman, Pt I